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A survey reveals Australia's biggest companies are "increasingly comfortable" with the carbon pricing scheme.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, emissions-trading, climate-change, australia
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| UpdatedThe proprietor of a health clinic where a toddler was crushed to death under a massage table has told an inquest the mother could have changed her appointment time to avoid needing to bring her children.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, death, sa, st-morris-5068, adelaide-5000, australia
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| UpdatedGina Rinehart's court battle with three of her children has been adjourned until March next year.
Topics: courts-and-trials, person, sydney-2000
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The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have kept a busy schedule in Melbourne ahead of a visit to South Australia.
Topics: royal-and-imperial-matters, osteoporosis, melbourne-3000
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Some people have now been without electricity for close to two days since severe weather across South Australia.
Topics: storm-disaster, storm-event, weather, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, sa, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, adelaide-5000, port-lincoln-5606, port-pirie-5540, renmark-5341, australia, hawker-5434
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government has appointed a former judge to head the review into Cycling Australia.
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| UpdatedPolice have arrested more than 300 members and associates of the Rebels Motorcycle Club, since the establishment of the Attero taskforce in February.
Topics: crime, police, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000
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Hundreds of thousands of workers in Greece have started a 48-hour general strike to protest against a new round of wage and pension cuts that parliament is expected to approve by a narrow margin.
Topics: world-politics, greece
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| UpdatedVital health services have endured the years and grown in the red dust of the outback.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-history, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, dental, health, university-and-further-education, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, history, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, human-interest, oodnadatta-5734, sa, adelaide-university-5005, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, port-lincoln-5606, port-pirie-5540, australia, nt
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| UpdatedThe High Court has today released the reasons for its decision about four Italian girls at the centre of a custody dispute in Australia.
Topics: courts-and-trials, family-law, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedShares in Yellow Brick Road have been placed on a trading halt amid reports it is in talks with Macquarie Group on a tie-up.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, takeovers, banking, australia
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| UpdatedA drunk, speeding driver who ran over and killed a man after an argument has been jailed for at least 16 months.
Lee Raymond Nugent, 32, was charged with murder but pleaded guilty instead to causing death by dangerous driving.
In June last year he drove his utility into Matthew Deedman, 39, who had tried to attack Nugent's car with a shovel as he stepped onto the road at Lameroo, in eastern South Australia.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, traffic-offences, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, lameroo-5302, adelaide-5000, sa, mount-gambier-5290, renmark-5341, australia
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| UpdatedTreasurer Wayne Swan has confirmed he asked Treasury officials to prepare costing details on three of the Coalition's policies, which were subsequently given to a newspaper.
Topics: federal-parliament, government-and-politics, tax, swan-wayne, hockey-joe, canberra-2600, australia
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A day after the Melbourne Cup, champion jockey Danny Nikolic has started his appeal against a two-year ban from racing.
Topics: horse-racing, courts-and-trials, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA British MP has been suspended from the parliamentary Conservative Party for flying to Australia to be part of a celebrity reality TV show.
Topics: world-politics, television, television-broadcasting, united-kingdom, australia, qld
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| UpdatedThe construction industry shrank at a slower pace in October, as previous rate cuts started to boost real estate activity.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, building-and-construction, housing-industry, australia
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| UpdatedA fresh wave of violence has rocked Syria as British PM David Cameron offered a safe passage to president Bashar al-Assad in a bid to end the bloodshed.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic, england
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| UpdatedNews Corporation has announced a massive surge in quarterly profit, driven by growth in its cable television operations.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, media, united-states, united-kingdom, australia
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| UpdatedThe Commonwealth Bank has posted an unaudited profit of around $1.8 billion for the three months to September.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, banking, business-economics-and-finance, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedJulia Gillard says the Asia Europe Summit was effective in endorsing the G20 agenda and agreeing to resist protectionism despite the eurozone crisis and the Asian slowdown.
Topics: world-politics, gillard-julia, unrest-conflict-and-war, business-economics-and-finance, lao-people-s-democratic-republic, bali
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| UpdatedA select few Australians have woken up as multi-millionaires following last night's mammoth Oz Lotto draw.
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| UpdatedPolice say a member of the Comancheros is fighting for his life in hospital after being shot several times in Sydney's west.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, rhodes-2138, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedOne man is dead and another is recovering in hospital after their four-wheel-drive broke down near the Simpson Desert in south-western Queensland.
Topics: emergency-incidents, bedourie-4829, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825, nt
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A young boy has died after being pulled unconscious from a backyard swimming pool on Sydney's north shore.
Topics: death, roseville-2069, nsw
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| UpdatedPresident Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are locked in a tight race for the White House, with three critical battleground states on a knife edge as results from the US election come in.
1:58pm: Antony Green has given New Hampshire to Obama, taking him to 217 Electoral College votes.
1:55pm: One of Australia's most pre-eminent America-watchers from the ANU, John Hart, says he's not sure why the networks haven't called Virginia.
Follow our live blog for updates.
Topics: us-elections, world-politics, united-states